'Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh; with Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis.' [‎19] (42/450)

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MOUNTAIN RANGES.
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e at half past five this morning in a north-east eli
te reetion, and about an hour after we passed the vil
lage of Reshki, on the left hand of the road. Here
e, another road branches off to the left, and joins the
•e main one again at the village ol Girdasheer. The
le whole of the country seems very well cultivated, and
le is rather more undulating than that to the south ot
la Arbil. The peasants were all ploughing. They
did but just scratch the ground. In one plough we
ie saw a small bullock and an ass yoked together.
)!• The mountains seem here to retire and form a bay
eastward ; they then advance again about the Zab to
to the westward. I now can distinguish several chains ;
1st, the broken country, which is a Continuation of
3 . Shuan; 2d, hills, a little higher ; then one or two
other higher and more rocky chains before Zagros,
^ which peeped over all, and seemed higher and more
broken into points, than any part of it we had yet
ie seen. The lines of hills seem, I think, rather closer
g 4 together than they are in Koordistan. Before us
> ( | Mount Makloube ; still farther to the left of it, Ka-
ratchuk, a mountain which is said to extend to Jezira
and Mardin. To the rieht of Makloube are two wall-
n0 ...
iat like ranges of hills, which run through Akra, and
which, together with Makloube, form the district of
Naokor*, a very rich province of Amadia.
er,
od * Naokor is descriptive of the situation of the province—a plain
11C 1 between two ranges of hills. The hills, or chain, on the east of
Naokor is a prolongation of Azmir, and is called the Akra moun-
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